Gluten free dough composition and sauce composition, and methods of preparing food using the same

A method of manufacturing fried food, the method comprising:

• frying a raw food material covered with batter to obtain fried food;
• and
• coating a surface of the fried food with a sauce composition, wherein the sauce composition comprises sucrose at a concentration from 10 to 70 wt %, and has 64 to 90 Brix and a viscosity at 80° C. of 50 to 1,000 cP,
• the coating comprising heating the composition to a temperature of 40 to 80° C. thereby producing a heated composition and then spraying the heated composition on the fried food, wherein the coating comprises tumbling the fried food in a tumbler.